Is There a Conflict Between Religion and Science?

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Do you think that there's a principled philosophical reasons to think that a purely scientific, naturalist description of the world falls short in terms of a complete explanation? I mean, do you think that people who are a scientifically naturalistically inclined are a cheating by not offering answers to questions like, maybe why there is a universe at all, or something like that? Or is hat not the kind of a road to go down? So, tha, in one sense, this is a question that i'd love to write a whole other book about at some point. And so i don't want to claim to be do justice to it here. But i'm not willing to dive immediately into

Erwin Schrödinger’s famous book What Is Life? highlighted the connections between physics, and thermodynamics in particular, and the nature of living beings. But the exact connections between living organisms and the flow of heat and entropy remains a topic of ongoing research. Jeremy England is a leader in this field, deriving connections between thermodynamic relations and the processes of life. He is also an ordained rabbi who finds resonances between modern science and passages in the Hebrew Bible. We talk about it all, from entropy fluctuation theorems to how scientists should approach religion.

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Jeremy England received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. He is currently Senior Director in the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning group at GlaxoSmithKline. He has been a Rhodes scholar, a Hertz fellow, and was named one of Forbes‘s “30 Under 30 Rising Stars of Science.” His new book is Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things.

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